Connect the word on the left with the description on the right (in the most
bizarre and craziest way, of course).

You will notice that you don't have to do 'all' the words of the description. For example, if the description says:

'A large marble used to shoot at other marbles', then probably if you visualise ONE marble, that will do just nicely. Another example, if the description says: 'The scholarly study of flags and their history', then having flags only as a picture is very sufficient indeed.

If you have 7 or less, then EITHER you simply not concentrating enough OR you have to brush up on your connections.
Please, please go back and re-read and practice, practice, practice Step 1:
Association.

Once you have 10 out of 10 in those exercises, THEN you come back to this
section.

Summary:

You do not have to know what the word means.

You do need to create a picture.

After a few exercises like this one, and I ask my students if this exercise was difficult,

they always answer: It was OK.

They simply do not realise the difference any more between 'easy' words and 'difficult' words.

Why?

BECAUSE THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!

The question from now on is not: do you know what it means, but: Do you have a picture.

In the future if you want to remember something, then all you need to do
is: